Political Quotes

“Let me run through this in the interest of time. No. 4, research on guns. The CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control has been criticized by some for supporting grantees with an alleged bias against guns as we look at violence. These studies have been carried out. Again, I have talked to Dr. Satcher personally and discussed, in my office, this issue. I brought up at that time the fact that raw data had not been made available from a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, that it should be made public. And I am actually very pleased that the raw data is now available on the Internet for everybody to see. I appreciate his rapid response. Fifth issue. Dr. Satcher has been accused of secretly conducting blind HIV studies on newborn babies and sending them home infected without treatment. Not true. Not true. It makes for great sound bites, and it catches the people's imagination, but it is simply not true. Again, look at what happens. The big issue is what is the incidence at the time? What is the incidence? What is the prevalence of HIV infection in your community? How would you find that out today? Well, the study that was actually carried out was that samples were obtained that had been discarded, set aside from clinics and from hospitals, all done once again with ethical standards of the time, and tests were done on that blood to see what the underlying incidence was. Yes, they were not labeled.”